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‘That’s What Governors Do’

September 4, 2009 1:18 pmSeptember 4, 2009 1:18 pm

Monologue | Aired Thursday night on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on ABC: This is unbelievable, our governor Arnold Schwarzenegger shows up to survey the damage and pats the firefighters on the back. That’s what governors do. But he has an uncanny ability to find dumbbells. He can walk into any burned down house and instantly find dumbbells.

This is a crazy story. Have you heard about the guards at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan? You have to imagine when you go to work at a company called Whackenhut, there are going to be some shenanigans. They released some photographs and I thought it would be fun to play a game. These are real photographs. You guess whether it was taken at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan or during spring break on the Mexican riviera.

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